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by gertef 11y ago
What's misleading?
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by gertef 11y ago
> The professor replied back that he was very sorry and was forced to give him an F. The student repeated the (required) class next year. Wow, way to prize process over people. Why not let the student drop the class and just re-take the
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by gertef 11y ago
Battery swaps help with long-range trips, but are in no way a convenience improvement over filling up a tank of gas.
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by gertef 11y ago
Is that due to CAFE or due to consumer preference for fuel-efficient cars within a class ? Since MPGS are heavily touted in advertising, it seems to be related to consumer preference
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by gertef 11y ago
> I'd wager Feynman would have objected to the term 'Feynman Integrity', That ship has sailed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Ric...
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by gertef 11y ago
Does water-powered hydrogren power consume freshwater? If you can get it the input from ocean, there is no scarcity problem.
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by gertef 11y ago
Cars charge overnight, which is a trough in electric demand. power plants prefer even loads. So car charging loads would be much less stressful than, say, growing population 10% and increasing peak demand.
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by gertef 11y ago
> If a battery costs $20k (like a Tesla) That's not nearly the asymptotic price, though. Tech is still developing.
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by gertef 11y ago
> Since conventional automakers don't seem to be willing to aggressively pursue EVs on their own, this seems like a reasonable approach. There are EV and plug-in hybrid options across many price ranges and car shapes.
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by gertef 11y ago
> One for daily travel and one to travel say from LA to LV just to play some casino games. There are other ways to get a vehicle for a road trip, besides buying one. There are also many plugin-hybrids now: 0 gaws for local driving, and
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by gertef 11y ago
CAFE is a farce, as it it forces manufacturers to design and build cars that no one buys . It's the wrong metric. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Average_Fuel_Economy... https://en.wikip
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by gertef 11y ago
from the Patent: LEGAL EVENTS 28 Sep 2010 AS Assignment Owner name: ENERGETIC SOLUTIONS, LLC, TEXAS 3 Aug 2012 AS Assignment Owner name: R&T ENTERPRISES, LLC, OREGON Effective date: 20111121 Free format text: MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE;ASSI
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by gertef 11y ago
> some kind of legal version of MAME > I came back six months later and it had been replaced are you sure it was legal? Seems unlikely.
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by gertef 11y ago
"food babe" == "Landover Baptist" of food.
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by gertef 11y ago
I wonder why GFW doesn't take the trivial step of redirecting google.hk to google.cn
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by gertef 11y ago
Indeed. LE routinely intercepts client<->attorney email and violates the principle of client-privilege, under a nonsense non-consensual EULA.
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by gertef 11y ago
Ugh. Is anyone going to live there, or is it a money-laundering/storage machine for investors?
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by gertef 11y ago
It's an interesting logical puzzle to see that, in the USA: * Voting is a right * not-voting is a right
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by gertef 11y ago
Even publicly run prisons have contractors and unions.
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by gertef 11y ago
That's the point. The buildings are aesthetically interesting (at least, the first one you see is), but they are horrible environments to spend your time in
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by gertef 11y ago
That's different. 1 is opposing the means because it fails at its stated goals 2 is opposing the goals (and alternate means ), because one of the means is failing.
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by gertef 11y ago
When you are blowing the whistle on the President of the United States, who do you escalate to?
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by gertef 11y ago
Billion, not Trillion! 1 Trillion is 150 singles for every human alive
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by gertef 11y ago
Some of Real Genius was adapted from real pranks perpetrated at Caltech and elsewhere.
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by gertef 11y ago
> Alan Turing and others have shown us they can't do it all Please explain where Alan Turn shown that computers cannot do they something that human can.
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by gertef 11y ago
that revelation is decades late: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
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by gertef 11y ago
The inventor of Mathics got a job at Wolfram :( http://www.poeschko.com/
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by gertef 11y ago
It can be, if you define the appropriate macros
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by gertef 11y ago
People behave very differently online and offline
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by gertef 12y ago
There is not a water-gallon's worth of hydrogren inside each almond.

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